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March 31, 2020
Primer
Join Our Virtual Event with Primer's Women Tech Leaders in Machine Learning & AI
If you are a skilled tech professional and you are interested in attending this event, please email events@powertofly.com with your name and LinkedIn URL to be considered for an invite.
Want to learn about the future of data automation? Then join Primer and PowerToFly for an intimate virtual event featuring Primer's women tech leaders and allies as they discuss their latest projects, share career advice, and answer YOUR questions.
Primer's mission is to accelerate our understanding of the world. They build machines that can read and write, automating the analysis of very large datasets. Primer's technology is deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, financial institutions, and Fortune 50 companies.
Join our special virtual event on Wednesday, April 22nd from 12:00pm PT to 1:00 PM PT (3:00 PM ET to 4:00 PM ET).
<p>Agenda (<em>Subject to Change</em>):</p><ul class="ee-ul"><li>12:00 PM PT - PowerToFly Kickoff</li><li>12:05 PM PT - Keynote & Welcome Address by Primer's Suzie Radack - SVP, People </li><li>12:10 PM PT - Technical Demo by Amy Heineike - Principal Product Architect</li><li>12:20 PM PT - Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A<ul class="ee-ul"><li>Amy Heineike - Principal Product Architect</li><li>Katy Evans - Sr. Data Scientist and Team Lead</li><li>Loi Laing - Sales Development Representative</li><li>Delenn Chin - Product Engineer</li><li>India Derrick - Software Engineer</li></ul></li><li>12:55 PM PT - Closing Remarks</li><li>1:00 PM PT - Event Concludes</li></ul><p>Primer is building machine intelligence that pushes the edge of what is currently possible; if you'd like to learn more about this technology and get your questions answered, we hope you can join us this April. </p><p><a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/primer?utm_source=Maropost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Primer&utm_content=PrimerApril2020" target="_blank">Visit Primer's page on PowerToFly</a> to learn more about their impressive benefits including catered lunches, ongoing learning initiatives, unlimited vacation, and flexible work options. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly: </strong>PowerToFly is a women-run startup that works with companies to identify skilled professionals they'd like to network with. Over the past two years, we've produced over two hundred virtual and in-person events across the world with brands like American Express, Microsoft, Deloitte, and Slack, which have resulted in countless hires. Visit <a href="http://powertofly.com/?utm_source=Marapost&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=PowerToFly&utm_content=PrimerApril2020" target="_blank">http://powertofly.com</a> to learn more. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly's Events:</strong> All RSVP'd attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require accommodation(s) to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.</p><p><em><strong>Unfortunately, PowerToFly and Primer cannot admit outside recruiters to this particular event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.</strong></em></p>
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September 26, 2019
How To Use AI To Solve Business Problems
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How To Use AI To Solve Business Problems
#ArtificialIntelligence is a hot technology, and it's popularity is only growing with startups and large corporations worldwide. If you've ever asked yourself, "Could my organization benefit from AI?" - you're not alone.
Shalini Trefzer, Founder of Swiss-based LeapSecond Consulting +, helps companies apply #AI to solve problems in various market segments and execute go-to-market strategies. If you've ever wondered about AI, how it can be used to solve #BusinessProblems, and how to scale your AI solution, you won't want to miss this chat!
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September 25, 2019
Diversity & Inclusion
The Modern Workplace Was Built for White Men— If We Don't Diversify the Brains Behind AI, The Future of Work Will Be Built for Them Too
Making AI Work for Everyone
Most experts agree that AI will revolutionize the workplace. What's less clear is whether it will be for better or worse.
<p>Many of these same experts argue that although machine learning will automate many tasks currently done by humans, it will also <em>create</em> a number of new roles. </p><p>But if AI is really going to do more good than harm, we <em>need </em>to diversify the brains behind it.</p><p>As Artificial Intelligence Reporter Karen Hao explains, the AI industry has a <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613320/ais-white-guy-problem-isnt-going-away/" target="_blank">severe lack of diversity</a>: </p><ul class="ee-ul"> <li>"Women account for only 18% of authors at leading AI conferences, 20% of AI professorships, and 15% and 10% of research staff at Facebook and Google, respectively. </li><li>Racial diversity is even worse: black workers represent only 2.5% of Google's entire workforce and 4% of Facebook's and Microsoft's."</li></ul><p>Why does this matter? We know all too well <a href="https://blog.powertofly.com/the-dated-everyday-tech-stifling-womens-voices-shows-the-importance-of-diversity-in-tech-2640335150.html" target="_blank">how technology designed by and for one small group </a>can end up hurting the rest of us.</p><p>As Hao points out, AI has already succumb to several of its creators biases: </p><ul class="ee-ul"><li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G" target="_blank">Devaluing women's résumés</a></li><li><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/613244/facebook-has-been-charged-over-housing-ads-that-discriminate-on-race-color-and/" target="_blank">Perpetuating employment and housing discrimination</a></li><li>Enshrining racist <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612957/predictive-policing-algorithms-ai-crime-dirty-data/" target="_blank">policing practices</a> and <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612775/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/" target="_blank">prison convictions</a><span></span></li></ul><span></span><p>We should be using AI to build a better and more inclusive workplace, not to further enshrine the biases of the white men who have the privilege of creating it. </p><h3>Curious about the world we could create with more diverse minds shaping the future of AI? </h3><ul class="ee-ul"> <li>Check out Valla Vikili's latest for Quartz, "<a href="https://qz.com/work/1715208/the-future-of-work-will-be-less-scary-with-more-women-in-ai/" target="_blank">The future of work will be far less frightening when there's more women in AI</a>" </li></ul><ul class="ee-ul"><li><a href="https://powertofly.com/career/live-chats/145172-how-to-use-ai-to-solve-business-problems" target="_blank">Join us FRIDAY. 9/27</a><strong> </strong>to learn how you can use AI for <em>good </em><strong>at work. </strong>Just educating yourself about AI and its potential is a great first step in ensuring it's used fairly (even if you're not going to make a career pivot into machine learning anytime soon). </li></ul><strong></strong><p><strong>Click Below To Sign Up</strong><br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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August 26, 2019
Microsoft Corporation
An Evening with Microsoft Women in Azure AI
If you are a tech professional in the greater Seattle area and you'd like to attend this event, please email events@powertofly.com to be considered for an invite.
Microsoft has partnered with PowerToFly to present an intimate networking event to hear from a panel of business & technology leaders from the Microsoft Azure AI Platform organization who will discuss their career journeys and current projects.
The event will take place on Wednesday, September 25th from 6pm to 8pm at Microsoft, 11025 NE 8th Street, 12th Floor, Bellevue.
Agenda (Subject to Change):
- 6:00pm - Check-In & Networking over Light Food & Drinks
- 6:25pm - Kick-Off from PowerToFly
- 6:30pm - Keynote Address by Ria Kapila, Chief of Staff
- 6:40pm - Tech Talk by Aniththa Umamahesan, Program Manager
- 6:55pm - Panel Discussion featuring leaders from Microsoft
- Julie Stevenson, Data Scientist
- Sindhura Bandhakavi, Principal Software Engineering Manager
- Sophia Liu, Data Scientist
- Vinitra Swamy, Software Engineer
- 7:15pm - Audience Q&A
- 7:30pm - Networking Continues
<p>PowerToFly has been thrilled to partner with Microsoft on several past events. Check out photos from a past gathering in Seattle <a href="https://blog.powertofly.com/an-inside-look-at-our-event-with-microsoft-in-seattle-2614618821.html" target="_self"><u>HERE</u></a>. Here's what one attendee shared: "<em>I brought my daughter who is also in IT. It was a wonderful evening for both of us. We loved the panel and they did make us feel that MS is now a more inviting place for women. We are now seeking employment at MS. The greatest thing about the evening was the opportunity to hang out with a room full of women IT professionals. How refreshing!"</em><br></p></div><p>Whether you are looking for new opportunities (<a href="https://powertofly.com/companies/microsoft-corporation?utm_source=Salesloft&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Microsoft&utm_content=MicrosoftSept2019" target="_blank"><u>Microsoft is hiring!</u></a>) or you just want to network with your peers, we hope you can attend this special mini-retreat. </p><p><strong>About Microsoft Azure AI Platform: </strong>Microsoft's objective is to make Azure AI the best platform for 1st and 3rd party customers. We want to enable our customers to easily develop systems of intelligence anywhere: in the Azure cloud, on edge devices, and offline. Our customers expect our services to deliver the promise of the cloud: that is, to deliver globally available, compliant, secure, performant, scalable AI that can be deployed in high-volume enterprise applications. Through teamwork we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world for the better. To learn more about our values and commitment to Diversity, Environment and Innovation click <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/values" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>. </p><p><strong>About PowerToFly's Events: </strong>All RSVP'd attendees are welcome, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, or age. If you require assistance to fully participate in this event, please email hi@powertofly.com, and we will contact you to discuss your specific needs.</p><p><strong><em>Unfortunately, PowerToFly and Microsoft cannot admit outside recruiters to this</em> </strong><em><strong>particular event. Please email hi@powertofly.com if you have any questions about this policy.</strong></em></p>
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October 23, 2018
Microsoft Corporation
An Inside Look at Our Event with Microsoft in Seattle
PowerToFly was thrilled to partner with Microsoft to present a blow out evening of information and inspiration featuring a panel of women leaders from the Microsoft Cloud + AI organization.
<p>Held on Wednesday October 10th at The Collective, a beautiful venue on Seattle's Dexter Avenue that features plush couches, floor-to-ceiling windows and artwork-worthy furniture for an overall chic, modern vibe, our hundred-plus guests were greeted by scrumptious hors devours and a great selection of beer, wine and sparkling water. </p><p>After checking in, our guests had a chance to network with their peers and members of the Microsoft team until PowerToFly's <strong>Caroline Turner</strong> officially kicked off the night by introducing the evening's keynote speaker, Microsoft's <strong>Charlotte Yarkoni</strong>, Corporate Vice President - Commerce + Ecosystems, Cloud + AI. </p><p>Charlotte started her address by having the various women in the room raise their hands according to their specialty. The capacity room was full of a diverse cross-section of women in tech including but not limited to engineers, data scientists, program and project managers, designers and sales people. Charlotte discussed her role at Microsoft, provided some insight into her own career journey and imparted a wonderful piece of advice to the attendees: "I encourage you guys to take these opportunities not just to socialize but to get to know each other and most importantly, learn from each other. That's what it's kind of all about. Bring something to the table, take something from the table." </p><p>Next, Caroline invited three other women leaders from Microsoft to join Charlotte in a panel discussion including <strong>Angie Anderson</strong>, Director of Software Engineering; <strong>Natalia Mackevicius</strong>, Director Program Management; and <strong>Ashley McNamara</strong>, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate. Our four women leaders in tech dove a bit deeper into their current and past projects, the thriving company culture at Microsoft and how they all find work-life integration. After some questions from Caroline, the floor was opened up for an audience Q&A. </p><p>After our panel concluded, everyone dove back into networking and had the chance to ask the panelists additional one-on-one questions. As the evening drew to a close, our attendees slowly headed out into the Seattle night with a custom Microsoft notebook in hand, the perfect end to a memorable evening.</p>
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PowerToFly's Caroline turner greets a packed crowd.
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A sold out room.
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Microsoft's Charlotte Yarkoni Corporate Vice President - Commerce + Ecosystems, Cloud + AI
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Microsoft's Charlotte Yarkoni, Natalia Mackevicius, Angie Anderson and Ashley McNamara.
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An amazing panel of women tech leaders.
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